Zoning Change Denied

A great showing by Shady Brook residents at the Council meeting last night. Many attended and 4 residents spoke, each bringing up a different reason for leaving the zoning the way it is instead of allowing heavy commercial. Reasons include neighborhood compatibility, chemical danger to the creek, flooding danger both from the creek and because the parking lot serves as a natural drainage area for the church parking lot, parking and traffic concerns.

The company may still move in there, but if so, they would need to operate within the requirements of the existing zoning and their trucks will not be parked there every evening and all weekend. We do not know how this affects the sign he proposes - a billboard-sized 50 foot, 250 sq foot sign.

As one neighbor told the City Council -- just because someone asks you don't have to approve it -- "You CAN say NO!" And thankfully, they did.